Sandra Banke

Contact information for Sandra Banke

CALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning

Click on the title of the activity that you would like to practice.

Typing & Spelling – All Levels

Grammar and listening – Mixed Levels

Reading

  • ESOL News Oregon —  Beginning, intermediate & advanced news stories about Oregon.  Exercises and audio included.
  • Unite for Literacy — Book about many different topics.  Includes audio.  Mostly children’s topics, but some have good vocabulary for adults, too.
  • Reading & Listening Videos from ESL LIbrary — Good for Levels 1 & 2!  Note:  You may need to click “SKIP ADS” at the beginning.
  • ESL Literacy Readers — Beginning,  high-beginning & low-intermediate stories with pictures and audio.  Click on a level, click on a story, then click on > (the PLAY  arrow) to read and listen.
  • Home & School — Beginning stories about people and the things they do every day. Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles.  All include exercises.
  • Portland People & Places — High beginning articles about people and places in Portland, Oregon. Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles.  All include exercises.
  • Seven Wonders of Oregon — Intermediate articles about beautiful places in Oregon.  Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles.  All include exercises.

Video

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Past tense -ed pronunciation (& handout)

Video lessons for number pronunciation and more. Created by PCC’s own teacher, Woods Strickiin. Thank you, Woods!

**For vowel (a, e, i, o, u + more) practice, click on the Pronunciation Exercises link top right (on a laptop) or at the bottom of this page (on your phone.)**

Time exercises

Clock

Level 1

Food and shopping exercises:

  • Vocabulary  #1,  #2
  • Food packaging  #1,  #2

Clothing vocabulary exercises

Level 2

Simple present tense practice:

  1. Listening:
  2. Grammar:

Present continuous practice:

  1. Grammar –
  2. Listening –

Other grammar points:

Level 3

Practice with “because” and “so”

Practice with future – “will” vs. “(be) going to”

Practice with simple present vs. present continuous

Practice with past tense:

  1. Past tense -ed pronunciation rules
  2. Listening-
  3. Grammar- action verbs
  4. Grammar — BE past tense:
  5. Practice with video:  Watch one of the short video clips.  Try to describe some of what happened in the video in past tense.

Practice with comparative adjective forms:

  1. Comparative adjective practice with Adele’s ESL Corner
  2. Comparative sentence practice with English-4u.de
  3. Comparative exercises from spot.pcc.edu/map
  4. from a4esl.org – comparative forms

Practice with modal verbs

should and shouldn’t exercises

Mouse Practice